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  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... so we don’t really know how to do it). In other years at MIT, I would

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... who was able to get through the door you wanted to, or through a ... in you to move forward, fueled by your determination and goals

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... with a severe mental disorder in an MRI. This makes me want to wear a ... (scientific ones nonetheless. You know, the ones that are hard to get

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  really engaged in my education during high school. Yet you get to college ... knows exactly how to get what they want in life and I'll convert, but to ... me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to ... that way to me. There's a Quora answer that describes anosmia in ... to stay in the Philippines. She called my dad, who was shocked, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... ’s no chance of getting in when secretly your heart/brain/stomach is ... confidence in yourself and your abilities and your passions to throw your name

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  're excited about. While I was in California in early October, I started to ... . You get the point) The best candidates to MIT bring much more to the ... score. MIT students are three-dimensional, are good people in addition to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a ... ’ll get to it. Here’s one tricky thing about being at MIT: you never know how you compare to anyone else directly. I remember in high school

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  Canvas, so Stellar might be in the procss of getting phased out. Regardless ... Messenger group chats to do a little analysis and see if I could get any ... percent of the class in the chat! This makes sense to me; the easier the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  an admissions blogger I only have 23 minutes left, so time to get ... because I liked to read the blogs. A few years later, I spent a summer in ... other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that ... lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the ... young person. I get the sense from the essays that he has had to fight

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  four hours in. But now we get to tackle the real beast—the Green Line ... ’s nice to have. In any case, it takes half an hour to get from Riverside to ... are also in 24-hour time, I’m just writing this way in opposition to CJ

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it ... journal in taking you back to your favorite moments. Take naps in the ... from you too - in fact, that's part of the reason they chose to be

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note ... grad students in research projects. with urop, we get to learn more about ... where my mom had me wash my hair in vinegar to get rid of lice. to me

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down ... engineering to pursue a PhD in biological engineering at MIT. (It’s not as crazy

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  side, this meant that in addition to the ~12 hours a day I already spend ... a page and seeing cold numbers on a screen to getting attached to you ... ) that I got home, laid down in bed, and tears just started to flow. They

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  Light) almost exactly the size of the Pantheon in Rome. To get there from ... . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two ... had to turn off his video etc -- ahh, PhD defenses in the Zoom era

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  class website or announce in class, they'll eventually get to know you. If ... caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death ... video. Caution! Mild condiment violence to follow. In case you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  Actual Problems. Now, in May, as things started to get progressively worse ... you get something like this to happen? Final exams and projects are ... control can make getting out of bed to complete your final really hard, or

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  's supposed to start getting actually warm in a few days, which I hope comes ... event: any student majoring in EECS can line up to get free food. Usually ... about making it to my 1 pm on time, but I get in line. Luckily, it moves

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022